XTech '99, XIO '99 Exposition, Python in XML

Final reminder: XTech '99, the third annual West Coast XML conference,
starts in two weeks at the San Jose Convention Center. This is the
place to learn about the latest developments in XML and related
technologies from the people and companies at the center of the XML
revolution. XTech itself is sponsored by Sun Microsystems and IBM;
the associated interoperability expo, XIO, is sponsored by Microsoft.
See http://www.gca.org/conf/xtech99/xtecindx.htm for details and registration.

It's not too late to register for XTech '99 and the XIO '99 Interoperability
Exposition!

XIO '99 is more than a trade show; exhibitors demonstrate technology
interoperability using a selection of XML data sets. "XIO '99 is a milestone
event, the first promoted event demonstrating the manipulation and transfer of
XML data. It will be either prove a giant step forward in XML development or a
disappointment to users awaiting the technology necessary for the support of
XML and its related specs," says Marion Elledge, Senior Vice President,
Information Technologies, GCA.

Among vendors making product announcements and demonstrating new tools are
Arbortext, CITEC, and DataChannel. Sun Microsystems has been rumored to launch
its XML strategies at XTech.

Arbortext previews a "free form XML editing" capability that will be available
in upcoming releases of Epic and ADEPT. CITEC demonstrates recent upgrades to
DocZilla, an XML, SGML, and HTML browser based on open source from Netscape's
Mozilla project. Kinetic Technologies announces SIM, The Structured Information
Manager, Version 2.3. SIM is a native XML product suite that enables
high-speed, sophisticated access and delivery across very large and growing
information sets.

The XIO '99 Exposition is co-sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and GCARI
(Graphic Communications Association Research Institute). XIO '99 opens Monday
afternoon, March from 4:00 pm and remains open through the XTech '99 Conference
closing at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, March 10.

Jon Bosak wrote:
>
> Final reminder: XTech '99, the third annual West Coast XML conference,
> starts in two weeks at the San Jose Convention Center. This is the
> place to learn about the latest developments in XML and related
> technologies from the people and companies at the center of the XML
> revolution.

One of the features of that conference will be a tutorial on Python in
XML. Although it is only scheduled for a half a day I intend to be
available to registered attendees for the entire conference period. During
the scheduled half-day we will map out the various neat things you can do
with Python and XML. Over the other days I will meet with the attendees to
help them explore specific options such as Python's event-driven APIs,
tree-based APIs, non-XML parsing (for upconversions), formatting and so
forth. From my biased point of view, this is an excellent opportunity for
anyone thinking about writing XML software.

"In general, as syntactic description becomes deeper, what appear to
be semantic questions fall increasingly within its scope; and it is
not entirely obvious whether or where one can draw a natural bound
between grammar and 'logical grammar'." - Noam Chomsky, 1963